Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night they huddled together in a drafty, bomb-blasted hangar. In the day they stood in the wan sunlight shaking the chill from their limbs as C-46s droned in monotonously from dawn till dusk. As Communist troops drew nearer and nearer, the panicky ticket holders began to riot. After Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport made its last flight out of Mukden, those who could set out in automobiles and mule carts to run the Communist gauntlet to Yingkow...
...Georgia last Saturday, 300 players and spectators became involved in a riot during the Georgia Tech-Auburn game. A questionable decision seems to have been the cause of the fracas. This sort of thing is great for the newsreels but bodes ill for the cause of sport...
...magazines had stacked up on 'me and I told the Old Sarge, T'm going to bring some of these over to the old duffers.' Sarge shook his head and said 'Do you want to start a riot?' But I persisted and at first I wasn't too welcome ('Damn old hen come asnoopin''). I let the insults slide over me and kept bringing the magazines. Now, believe it or not, I have the old devils talking to each other and we even have sessions of discussion on topics of interest...
...Riot of Football...
...riot of offensive football, in which young Arthur Valpey's debutante team forced the fight, struck the first blow, dazed a sound 7 1/2 point favorite, and stomped home with an opening day upset which sent its undergraduate contingent into a mass demonstration of delerium...